Florida · Nonprofit
Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc
Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,228 to it, the largest being ART CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT INC ($47,728). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $276k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $143k
What Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc does
Mission
The purpose of our organization is to put on a high quality arts festival for the Northwest Florida area. The festival occurs the first weekend of November and runs for 3 days. (Continued on Sch O)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Visual Arts Festival: Provides a high quality juried art show to the Northwest Florida area. More than 140,000 people attended the three day event that showcased professional artists from all over the nation. Over 200 artists were invited to exhibit their work. We also had an international artist exhibiting her art and an Emerging Artist program. Our Heritage Arts Show included artists demonstrating their Crafts of the Past. There were 40 artists included in this section.
$202,448 spentof which $32,620 as grants$269,858 earned by the program79% of program spendingOther program services include a Performing Arts Stage that invites local and regional dancers to perform. Additionally, our Student Art Show brought in student artwork from both elementary and high school students. Our Musical Stage also brought in various local and out of state performers.
$34,017 spentof which $400 as grants13% of program spendingThe Arts Festival also includes a separate Childrens Festival where children can participate in many different artistic areas including areas for special needs children.
$13,887 spent5% of program spendingRevenue includes collection for the Donna Fassett Scholarship.
$6,000 spentof which $6,000 as grants$5,682 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $256,352.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $109k to $141k (+30%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2022 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $13k → $48k.
From the IRS filings of Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
88% of Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc?
- Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,228 to it, the largest being ART CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT INC ($47,728). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $83,228 in grants to Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc?
- ART CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $47,728 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing